East Central Europe

Maciej Janowski is Professor at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences (Head of Workshop of the history of intelligentsia since 2006), Recurrent Visiting Professor at the History Department of Central European University in Budapest. He is Deputy Editor of Kwartalnik Historyczny. He published numerous studies on Polish and Central European intellectual history, among others Polish Liberal Thought before 1918 ( 2004), while his The Birth of the Polish Intelligentsia, 1750-1831 is forthcoming in 2008. His principal fields of interest are Polish and East-Central European history in the 19th century, with special focus on the history of political ideas.

Constantin Iordachi is Associate Professor at the History Department, Central European University, co-director of Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, CEU (www.pasts.ceu.hu) His academic research and teaching focus on theory and methods in social history; comparative approaches to historical research; totalitarianism and mass politics (with a focus on fascism and communism); nationalism, citizenship and minorities in modern Central and Southeastern Europe. His publications include: Charisma, Politics and Violence: The Legion of the "Archangel Michael" in Inter-war Romania (2004) and Citizenship, Nation and State-Building: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913 (2002, Carl Back Papers in Russian and East European Studies No. 1607). He served as co-editor of Ţărănimea şi puterea: Procesul de colectivizare a agriculturii în România, 1949-1962 (2005); forthcoming in English as Transforming Peasants, Property and the State. The Process of Land Collectivization in Romania, 1949-1962 (2008); and România şi Transnistria: Problema Holocaustului. Perspective istorice şi comparative (Romania and Transnistria: The Question of the Holocaust. Historical and Comparative Perspectives) (2004).

Balázs Trencsényi, is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Central European University, Budapest. He is Co-director of the historical research institute Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies at CEU, and Co-editor of the Hungarian cultural periodical 2000. He is recipient of the European Research Council Starting Independent Researcher Grant for 5 years, starting 2008. He co-edited, among others, the volumes Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian and Hungarian Case Studies (2001); Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1775-1945): Texts and Commentaries, Vols I-II (2006/7); Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (2007); and he authored the volume A politika nyelvei. Eszmetörténeti tanulmányok (Languages of Politics: Studies in Intellectual History) (2007). His principal fields of interest are history of early modern and modern political thought in Central Europe, history and theory of historiography.

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Andrei Pleşu (University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)
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Table of Contents issue 38.2-3 Autumn 2011)


INTRODUCTION

GÁBOR KLANICZAY AND BALÁZS TRENCSÉNYI, Mapping the Merry Ghetto: Musical Countercultures in East Central Europe, 1960–1989

ARTICLES

SÁNDOR HORVÁTH, “Wild West,” “Gangster,” and “Desperado” Feelings: The Perception of the “West” in Youth Subcultures in Hungary in the 1960s

TAMÁS SZŐNYEI, Kept on File: The Secret Service’s Activities against Popular Music in Hungary, 1960–1990

MARTIN MACHOVEC, Czech Underground Musicians in Search of Art Innovation

VLADIMIR TRENDAFILOV, The Formation of Bulgarian Countercultures: Rock Music, Socialism, and After

CAIUS DOBRESCU, The Phoenix that Could Not Rise: Politics and Rock Culture in Romania, 1960–1989

GRZEGORZ PIOTROWSKI, Jarocin: A Free Enclave behind the Iron Curtain

TREVER HAGEN, Converging on Generation: Musicking in Czechoslovakia

GËZIM KRASNIQI, Socialism, National Utopia, and Rock Music: Inside the Albanian Rock Scene of Yugoslavia, 1970–1989

LJUBICA SPASKOVSKA, Stairway to Hell: The Yugoslav Rock Scene and Youth during the Crisis Decade of 1981–1991

OSKAR MULEJ, “We Are Drowning in Red Beet, Patching Up the Holes in the Iron Curtain”: The Punk Subculture in Ljubljana in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s



List of Contributors


Jan Bröker, broker_jan@ceu-budapest.edu (Doctoral candidate, History Department, Central European University)

Caius Dobrescu, caius.dobrescu@gmail.com (Professor, Theory of Literature/Comparative Literature Department, University of Bucharest)

Marina Falina, mariafalina@gmail.com (Post-doctoral fellow, History Department, Central European University)

Trever Hagen, th265@ex.ac.uk (Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter)

Sándor Horváth, sandor.horvath34@gmail.com (Research fellow, Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Gábor Klaniczay, klaniczay@colbud.hu (Professor, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University)

Gezim Krasniqi, g.krasniqi@ed.ac.uk (Doctoral candidate, University of Edinburgh)

Uku Lember, lember.uku@gmail.com (Doctoral candidate, History Department, Central European University)

Martin Machovec, m.machovec@seznam.cz (Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague)

Oskar Mulej, oskar.mulej@gmail.com (Doctoral candidate, History Department, Central European University)

Grzegorz Piotrowski, gregpio.trowski@gmail.com (Doctoral candidate, European University Institute, Florence)

Ljubica Spaskovska, ls351@exeter.ac.uk (Doctoral candidate, University of Exeter)

Tamás Szőnyei, szonyei.tamas@upcmail.hu (Journalist, Magyar Narancs)

Balázs Trencsényi, trencsenyi@ceu.hu (Associate Professor, History Department, Central European University)

Vladimir Trendafilov, vlantr@gmail.com (Professor of English Literature Department of Literature, South-Western
University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)